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Wednesday, January 22, 2003

Book reviews (in Finnish) -- Comment()
I published here some book reviews I wrote about five years ago. The reviews are written in Finnish. Currently available are the following short reviews:

Advice to a Young Scientist (P. B. Medawar; BasicBooks, 1979)
Evolution (Mark Ridley; Blackwell Science, 1996, 2nd edition)
The Number Sense: How the Mind Creates Mathematics (Stanislas Dehaene; Oxford University Press, 1997)
Konetiedon kritiikki (Theodory Roszak; Art House, 1992)
The Elements of Style (Strunk, White; Allyn & Bacon, 1979, 3rd ed.)
On Writing Well (William Zinsser; HarperCollins, 1994, 5th ed.)
Tekstintekijän käsikirja (Iisa, Kankaanpää, Piehl; Yrityskirjat Oy, 1997)
Things that Make Us Smart (Donald A. Norman; Perseus Press, 1994)
The Evolution of Consciousness: the Origins of the Way We Think (Robert Ornstein; Touchstone Books, 1992)
Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain (Antonio R. Damasio; Avon Books, 1995)
In the Palaces of Memory (George Johnson; Vintage Books, 1992)
A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper (John Allen Paulos; Anchor, 1996)
Mathematics: From the Birth of Numbers (Jan Gullberg; Norton, 1997)
The Collapse of Chaos: Discovering Simplicity in a Complex World (Jack Cohen ja Ian Stewart; Penguin, 1995)
From Here to Infinity (Ian Stewart; Oxford University Press, 1996)

I'm planning to include some 30-40 additional book reviews to this collection, when I have the time.

Google-It! for the titled postings -- Comment()
I added the new Google-It! macro for the item templates. Thus the posting will have a Google link after the title. By clicking on the link you can make a Google search with the words in the title.